UNESCO World Heritage CentreThe island of Gorée lies off the coast of Senegal, opposite Dakar. From the 15th to the 19th century, it was the largest slave-trading centre on the African coast. Ruled in ...

Old houses and palm trees in the square on Gorée Island, which roughly 1,600 people call home today. To reach Gorée Island takes about 30 minutes by ferry from Dakar.

Documentary. Directed by Pierre-Yves Borgeaud. In English, French and Wolof, with English subtitles. (Not rated. 110 minutes. At the Sundance Kabuki.) Like Auschwitz and Abu Ghraib, Gorée Island ...

A lovely island. One of the magnificent Senegal's islands, Gorée is very meaningful. It has been the main west Africa's French counter, and the first "slaves' main market". It is 4 Km far from ...

Five years ago I stood in a slave castle on Senegal’s Gorée Island at the infamous Door of No Return. Our guide told us that once Africans walked through this doorway, which opened right into ...

Lucky diners will find Gorée Cuisine at 1126 E. 47th Street. Passersby may not take notice of the unassuming storefront, and most UChicago students may have never heard of it, but those fortunate ...

Gorée is a UNESCO World Heritage Site for the role it played in the Atlantic slave trade, so Ba and his siblings served countless orders of their grandma’s tiebu djeun to tourists from all over ...

30 COM 7B.43 State of Conservation (Island of Gorée) The World Heritage Committee, 1. Having examined Document WHC-06/03.COM/7B, 2. Recalling Decision 29 COM 7B.37 adopted at its 29th session (Durban, ...